Children's Illustrated

Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.Color illustrations by Bert Kitchen. Dust jacket with 1 inch closed tears to spine bottom, back flap. On Christmas eve 1910 on the Shakleton expedition, a sailor's pet rabbit needs a cozy place to sleep. Based on expedition diaries.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Lillian Hoban. A young girl describes her adventures with her unusual friend, Lily Boop, who keeps a pet slug and eats raw eggs for lunch. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/ Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. In their fortieth picture book, two Caldecott Medalists bring to vivid life the most famous verses from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes through imaginative paintings reflecting the world's various cultures, accompanied by a full-color explanatory glossary.

NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 43 pages. Black & white pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. An "I Am Reading" book. Library binding. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 26 pages. Color illustrations by Coco Dupuy. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Phoebe's parents, who are magicians, forbid her to enter the magic room where they work, until an accident shrinks them to tiny size and they need her help in returning to normal.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Friso Henstra; a Russian folktale about a cow who's magical milk brings back youth to her owners; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Fairy love story by the actor Richard Burton's Welsh father.

New York, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $2.95 price. 65 pages. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light wear to spine and corners. Dust jacket with minor soil to rear panel.

Springfield, MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format 10x12", pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. The cloth has separated from the spine and the first signature is holding on by a thread or two, Except for this loose binding defect, the pages are clean and bright. No markings. A scarce title.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover. SIGNED BY OPIE on front fly leaf. SIGNED BY WELLS on title-page. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. London, Doubleday , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Ian Beck. Minor wear to top edge of dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Oxenbury. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Williams Collins , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Generously illustrated in color and black and white. Yellow endpapers and chronological list of Tudor's books. Good tight copy. Loving portrait of her mother by the beloved children's book illustrator's daughter offered in words, intimate family photographs, paintings, illustrations, & drawings from across their lives together in the New England countryside.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four traditional Irish tales are woven throughout this touching story of Donal O'Donnell, who has kept his heart closely guarded since the death of his son, as he is unexpectedly captivated by the stories of three peddlers, which are filled with hope, healing, and magic. Color illustrations by Loren Long.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/ Albert Whitman, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Bannon, 48 pages. Green cloth covers decorated in 2-colors. Tight, clean condition with a slight nick to front cover at bottom corner. Miss Bannon and her friend, Katherine Evans, also a children's book illustrator, were living in a small Mexican village. While painting, the two friends were beguiled by a little girl. When they found she wanted a special doll, they combined their talents to make a very unusual gift. Light pencil inscription on prelim page, otherwise clean.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 4th pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Full-color illustrated pop-ups by Sabuda, special foils. Excellent condition. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed boards, with 6 pop-up image, illustrated by Jonathan Lambert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Illustrated end papers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color and b&w lithographic illustrations by the D'Aulaires. Bright dust jacket, unclipped but with inked price under printed price on flap $5.95.

Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Cartoon illustrations by Sam Weissman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Kessler. An I Can Read Book all about swimming. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, without the Caldecott sticker.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers, 76 pages. Color illustrations by Nordell. Writing on rear cover. Rubbing to edges. Seven chapters with paper doll cutouts, ONLY 5 REMAIN INTACT. Heavy chipping to coer boards.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Chuck Groenink. This simple nonfiction picture book about the beloved American poet William Carlos Williams is also about how being mindful can result in the creation of a great poem like 'The Red Wheelbarrow'--which is only sixteen words long. In this lovely picture book, young listeners will see how paying attention to the simplest everyday things can inspire the greatest art, as they learn about a great American poet.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoria; glossy boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Dick Stone. Faint musty smell. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Glen Rounds. A comical tale of unlucky Felix and his continuing catastrophes. Clean, no dust jacket issued.

New York, Clarion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 42 pages. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Even after his magical godfather sends him home from the Black Forest with a sackful of coins, a young man refuses to listen to his mother and be content with his simple life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations. Each die-cut page features a bunny profile, which collectively creates the whole bunny family. Chipping to top 5" of front cover hinge. Light wear overall.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, original price intact (5050). A retelling of an African folk tale with wonderful color and b&w artwork throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky. One of four of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories published by Garden City in 1942, all illustrated by Rojankovsky. The other three were: The Elephant's Child; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Camel Got His Hump. Unpaginated [28 pages]; full-color, 2-color, and b&w illustrations throughout.

NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Phillippe Dupasquier. Visiting a museum with his father and younger sister, a little boy wonders if the Roman sandal on exhibit was lost by another little girl just like his sister.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Charlotte Voake. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she's six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she's seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries? First appearing in 1937, it is published here for the first time as a picture book (pen and watercolor).; 10 x 11".

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hudson Talbott. Unpaginated. Tape repair to title page. As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country's lesser kings, jealous of Arthur's glory, declare war on him. Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur's place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere. In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur's early days as leader of Britain, his building of Camelot, and the dedication of the Round Table--a unique brotherhood of knights devoted to unity and peace.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Humorous drawings of a possum in the city. Frank Tashlin, also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator, cartoonist, children's writer, illustrator, screenwriter, and film director. Bright, clean copy.